ANTI-RAT CAMPAIGN
SCARCITY OF SUITABLE POISONS The City Council in continuing its free issue of rat poison, has met considerable difficulty in obtaining supplies of the kind of poison it wants During Health Week a good deal was said of a barium carbonate poison, as possessing at least two advantages over other mixtures, first, that it is comparatively harmless to human beings, secondly, that it dries the carcass up and reduces dead rat nuisances —which can be rather intense —to a minimum. It was accordingly decided to obtain this poison, plenty of it, and to make it available to all who wanted supplies. But when an endeavour was made to obtain barium carbonate it was found that none was to be had in New Zealand, at that time, at any rate. A phosphorous poison was obtained in its place, and is still obtainable at the offices of the Health Department, but it is a proprietary line which*' is rather on the expensive side from a free issue point of view. It is understood that certain recom-) mendations will be made to the council shortly, which, if adopted, will have the effect of making the anti-rat campaign continuous.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 7
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197ANTI-RAT CAMPAIGN New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 7
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